Program: Session 1: Search Theory Session 2: Hidden Search Effort and Unemployment Session 3: Hiring Behavior and Quits Session 4: Matching Frictions and the Behavior of Vacancies and Wages Session 5: Matching Frictions, Unemployment and Inflation Session 6: Implications of Policy Regulation in...

Topics: - Economic-social-legal conditions and symptoms of labour market flexibility - Flexibility of national labour markets in countries - EU members (role of state in forming flexibility of labour market and European social model (guidelines, strategies, European founds) - Employers and...

The workshop discusses recent research that evaluates passive and active labour market policies. Theoretical, empirical, experimental and policy-oriented contributions are welcome. Papers that focus on specific groups like long-term unemployed people or unemployed people who receive means-tested...

Auf dem Workshop sollen Arbeitsmarktprobleme vorgestellt und diskutiert werden, die in einem inhaltlichen Zusammenhang zur regionalen Mobilität, zur Einkommensmobilität und zur beruflichen Mobilität stehen. Besonderer Wert wird auf die Darstellung der politischen Implikationen der jeweiligen...

Topics: • the impact of globalization on organizational change • international organizations as organizational change agents • the diffusion of organizational change practice • implementing organizational change in transitional countries • developing organizational change practice •...

The seminar aims to: - assess the energy challenges facing the forest product industry globally in an integrated way; - examine the impact of new energy policies and future energy scenarios on the competitiveness of forest products; - focus on the potential of bio-energy and bio-refinery and the...

The aims of this seminar are: • to give an overview of the state of the art in measurement of productivity worldwide, • to identify major challenges for statistics with a special focus especially on the adjusted Lisbon goals and gaps in the European Statistical System, • to discuss and to...

Key topics for discussion include: · Global Energy Outlook: What are the Challenges Ahead? · Oil Production Capacity Expansion · Downstream Challenges and Opportunities · Role of Petroleum Technology Advances · Petroleum and Sustainable Development · The Role of OPEC in a New Energy Era

Conference themes: Plenary 1. Latin America: Breaking the Mold Plenary 2: Wars and Natural Resources Plenary 3. Katrina: Race and Class DAVID GORDON LECTURE (Changes in U.S. Capitalism Since the Reagan Era: Where Are We Now? Michael Reich, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley and Director,...

The theme of this workshop is Energy Markets and Environmental Externalities.